Introduction. A Companion to Ingmar Bergman: The Second Century -- part I. Theories old and new. To Signify Something for Others: The Hysteric's Discourse in Bergman's Persona / Anna Backman Rogers ; The Auteur Quickly Found, Quickly Lost : Jean-Louis Comolli on Bergman / Daniel Fairfax ; The Queer Failure of Ingmar Bergman's För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor (All These Women) / Amanda Doxtater ; Uncertainty, Delirium, and a Betrayal of What My Body Knew : Horror in the Films of Ingmar Bergman and Beyond / Sharon Jane Mee ; "One Sees What One Sees, and One Knows What One Knows" : Ingmar Bergman's Ansiktet ( The Magician ) and Affect / Tracy Cox Stanton ; Identity Crises and Dreams of Being : Gender Ambiguity and Performance in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema / Page Maitland ; Evolutionary Insights into Master-Narrative Transitions in Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) / Mads Larsen -- part II. Methods and applications. Ingmar Bergman, Beyond the Walls of Reality / Joe McElhaney ; Existential Feelings in Bergman's 'Silence' Trilogy / Robert Sinnerbrink ; More Than Just a Melancholy Gaze : Birger Malmsten in and beyond the Films of Ingmar Bergman / Tytti Soila ; "I wouldn't want to live there!" : Imagining the Nordics through Ingmar Bergman's Films / Jono Van Belle ; Bergman's Temporality in its Relation to Memory, the Imaginary, and Legend / Maureen Turim ; Communicating Persona / Anders Marklund ; Ingmar Bergman and the Importance of Being Superficial : Fashion, Style, and the Auteur as Celebrity / Maaret Koskinen, Louise Wallenberg ; Travelling to Ingmar Bergman Land : Cinematic Tourism and Memories of Modernist Landscapes / Anna Sofia Rossholm ; Bergman and the World : Considering Race and Ethnicity in the Films of Ingmar Bergman / Shelleen Greene.

Part III. New takes on individual films. "Oh, dear, I've grown tubby" : Pregnancy and the Fantasy of the Child in Sommaren med Monika (Summer with Monika) / Soohyun Jeon ; Cinematic Atmosphere and Bergman's Jungfrukällan / Brendan Dennerley ; God in a Film about Godlessness : Tystnaden / Samuel Robert Dunn ; "Unborn Sorrow, Ripe in Fortune's Womb" : Abjection, Gothic Spaces, and The Spectral Mother in Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers) / James Bogdanski ; Following the Forces in Ingmar Bergman's En Passion / Hamish Ford, Daniel Humphrey ; Islands in the Stream: Fårö document s, 1969 and 1979 / Bill Nichols ; D.A. Miller ; Bisexuality, Neurosis, and Fantasies of the Caribbean in Ansikte mot ansikte (Face to Face) / Jacob Engelberg -- part IV. Context and influences. Ingmar Bergman and His Peers / Fredrik Gustafsson ; The Swedish Middle Way and the Cold-War Espionage Thriller : Film Noir , Neorealism, Psychological Defense, and Ingmar Bergman's Sånt händer inte här (This Can't Happen Here) / Scott MacKenzie, Anna Stenport ; Kafkaesque Aesthetics, Politics, and the Crisis of Liberal Individualism : Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) and Skammen (Shame) / Angelos Koutsourakis ; Art-cinema and Cultural Resistance : Ingmar Bergman's Reception in Chile during Pinochet's Dictatorship (1973-1990) / Maria Paz Peirano ; Ingmar Bergman Wrote a Porno, or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 'Den förstenade prinsen' (But Were Afraid to Ask) / Jan Holmberg ; The Audacity of Influence : Zetterling and Bergman / Mariah Larsson ; The Ripened Reverend: Ingmar Bergman and Paul Schrader / Mikko Tuhkanen ; Projectile Dysfunctions: Influences on and of Bergman's Persona / Richard R. Ness.